When your city has a “sustainability director” on the payroll, you can only guess what comes next.

How about a ban on gas leaf blowers?

In this case, it was South Portland, Maine, where a taxpayer backlash to the proposal finally killed it.

In the face of widespread resident opposition, the council reversed its planned ban on blowers.

But councilors said the public parks department will have to phase out its gas blowers. So Nanny lives.

“Our leaders aren’t the least bit concerned about reducing spending, cutting taxes, or generating revenue, but instead, gas leaf blowers,” Bud Munson of South Portland said before the vote went his way.

“It’s government overreach,” said South Portland’s David Gaudreau.

“The city should get rid of the sustainability department,” quipped Frank Smith.

But if you are a municipal “sustainability director” you’re emitting a different view.

“One hour of gas-powered leaf blower use emits the same air pollution as driving 1,100 miles,” said Julie Rosenbach, South Portland’s “sustainability director” said in her failed bid to ban blowers.

Facing claims of increasing noise and air pollution from blower haters, blue states and cities in the U.S have led the campaign to enact regulations on the use of gas-powered leaf blowers.

Left-leaning California, meanwhile, became the first state to enact a statewide prohibition not only on gas blowers but also on mowers and weed whackers — a proposal that has also been floated in South Portland.